Similar Posts

  • Assessment of External Costs And Emissions of Various Power Sources

    One of the studies that I find a need to quote from on a regular basis is the ExternE study of life cycle costs and emissions that shows just how much (or how little) external costs can be attributed to the production of a kilowatt-hour of electricity from a whole range of fuel supplies and…

  • American Nuclear Society – Winter Meeting

    For the next several days, I will be attending the American Nuclear Society annual Winter Meeting, which is being held in Albuquerque, NM. There should be some interesting reading as I attempt to share my impressions about the presentations, the buzz in the hallways, and the conversations on the associated show floor. One indication that…

  • Who says "no one wants to invest in nuclear power"?

    One of the most often repeated myths about nuclear power is that no one wants to invest in it. There was a time when that seemed to be true, but that time is long gone. If you review the performance of utility companies during the past three years, the more nuclear exposure that the utility…

  • Alberta may join the nuclear renaissance

    Energy Alberta recently made a presentation to the Stelmach (Ed Stelmach is the Premier of Alberta) government to teach them a little more about nuclear power and its potential benefits to the province. The company is in the early stages of planning for a two unit CANDU 6 reactor power station that will produce 2200…

  • Czech reactor at Temelin shifting fuel suppliers from Westinghouse to TVEL

    One of the profit centers in the nuclear business is in supplying manufactured fuel elements. Though fuel costs are a much smaller portion of the overall costs of generating power in a nuclear plant than they are in a fossil fuel plant, there is still a significant amount of money involved. Though full economic information…

  • Laura Israel Film Titled "Windfall" Debuts at Toronto Independent Film Festival

    A film editor who owns a getaway cabin in Meredith, New York recently produced her first documentary film focused on her second home town. A motivator for producing the film was her realization that she and her vacation area neighbors would never be able to get away from their new neighbors – an industrial sized…